severity 626732 wishlist thanks Hello Ansgar,
Ansgar Burchardt [2011-05-14 21:02 +0200]:
> Severity: serious
> Justification: missing source
The files are under BSD, which does not have a requirement of shipping
the source ("preferred form of modification"), unlike the GPL.
Therefore I'm downgrading the severity.
> As stated in src/backend/snowball/README, the files in
> src/backend/snowball/libstemmer/ are generated and the original source
> is not included. They should be built from the original source instead.
The original files are in a separate project (snowball), and
duplicating it in the postgresql git tree would not be appropriate
IMHO. It should be possible to build depend on libstemmer-dev and
regenerate the C files during build, but I don't think it would buy us
enough to justify the potential breakage. It's similar to using a
pregenerated yacc .c file instead of rebuilding the .y every time.
Thanks,
Martin
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